How legal is AllOfMP3?

Andrew Raff
March 31, 2005

In Slate, Dana Mulhauser looks at the legality of AllofMP3: Barely Legal - The hottest trend in file sharing.: "Could a scheme like Allofmp3.com be legal? Probably. Is it legal, in fact? Probably not. Will you get sued for using it? Not likely, or at least, far less likely than you would be for using Grokster or any of the other peer-to-peer networks."

Earlier this month, Russian criminal authorities declined to prosecute AllOfMP3 for criminal copyright infringement. However, it remains to be seen what happens when international copyright owners pursue a civil copyright infringement case against AllOfMP3 in Russian courts.

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